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Melanie Friend (Photographic Artist) full C.V. www.melaniefriend.com EDUCATION London Institute (London College of Printing). Jan 1999-Dec 2000 part-time: MA in Photography. Note: LCP now London College of Communication (University of the Arts London). Polytechnic of Central London (1984-88, part-time): BA (CNAA) Degree with Commendation in Photography. Note: PCL is now University of Westminster. University of York (1975-78): BA Hons. (Upper Second) in English and Related Literature. PUBLICATIONS Solo publications The Plain (Dewi Lewis Publishing), forthcoming, 2020. 42 colour images; essay by Dr. Matthew Flintham. Co-edited with Dr. Pippa Oldfield. The Home Front (Dewi Lewis Publishing in association with Impressions Gallery), October 2013. 96 pages, 38 colour images. Foreword by Hilary Roberts, Head Curator, Photography Archive at Imperial War Museum. Essay by Dr. Pippa Oldfield, Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery. Border Country (Belfast Exposed Photography/The Winchester Gallery, 2007). 72 pages including 19 colour images. Essays by Dr. Mark Durden and Dr. Alex Hall. No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo, Midnight Editions, USA, November 2001 (Photography/Journalism). 175 pages including 63 colour images. Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (catalogue of exhibition, Camerawork, London 1996). 56 pages; 16 colour images. Essay by Dr. David Bate. Group publications/catalogues/journals Spaces of War, War of Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2020). Chapter: Work-in-progress from The Plain. System of Systems (2017) essay & images from Border Country in group publication for Athens show. The Bigger Picture: The Work of Impressions Gallery (work from The Home Front selected for 40th anniversary publication; Impressions Gallery, 2016. Photography & Culture (Routledge, Vol. 8, Issue 3, Nov. 2015 & online 2016). European Photography, autumn 2014. British Journal of Photography, August 2014, ‘This is War’ issue. KATALOG journal, (Denmark) spring 2012 no.24/1 (Danish/English) portfolio The Home Front. Europe, European Central Bank Annual Photography Award 2008 (Border Country). KATALOG journal, (Denmark) summer 2002 (Danish/English) – portfolio on Kosovo. Hasselblad Center, Sweden, catalogue no. 11 Summer 2001 (Homes and Gardens). John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2000 (catalogue). Ikon Gallery catalogue of international group show Claustrophobia 1998. Artifice magazine and CD Rom, published by University College, London (Bartlett School of Architecture) 1996. Signals Festival of Photography, UK 1994: essay published in catalogue. ICI Photography Awards 1992 (published by National Museum of Photography, Film and Television). Camerawork Gallery catalogue 1990 for group show Silent Health by four photographers. Border Country, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2010). EXHIBITIONS Solo exhibitions The Home Front: Ryerson Artspace, Toronto, Canada, 5 – 29 September 2018. Gallery 310, School of Image Arts, University of Ryerson, Toronto, Canada 16 – 29 September 2018. Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts Philadelphia, USA, 31 October – 5 December 2017. UH Galleries, Hatfield, 14 November 2014 – 31 January 2015. DLI Museum and Art Gallery, Durham, 28 June – 21 September 2014. Impressions Gallery, Bradford 14 September – 23 November 2013. 1 Border Country: Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (Canada) 10 September – 16 October 2010. BCA Gallery Bedford, 16 December – 27 February 2010. The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, 6 – 29 February 2008. University of the Arts London, (Well Gallery, LCC) 4 – 24 October 2008. Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, 16 November 2007– 11 January 2008. Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible: Camerawork Gallery, London, 1996. Plymouth Arts Centre, 1997. University of Bradford Gallery, 1997. Mothers’ Pride: Cambridge Darkroom, 1990. F-Stop Gallery Bath, 1989. Spectrum Women Photography Festival, London, 1988. Group exhibitions The Home Front: Generation War, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles County, USA, 15 June – 24 August 24, 2019. A Green and Pleasant Land: British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970s to Now, Towner Art Gallery, UK, 30 September 2017 – 21 January 2018. 10 years in Bradford: 45 years in Yorkshire (Impressions Gallery exhibition, The Bradford Club 18 August – 30 September 2017). 20 images from The Home Front included in an opening show of work by selected women photographers for the LOOK/15 Liverpool International Photography Festival at Tate Liverpool, May 2015. You Are The Company In Which You Keep at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 28 September – 23 November 2013. Part of The Social. Border Country: The System of Systems, Grace gallery, Athens, 4 – 21 May 2017. European Central Bank Europe Photographic Award 2008: finalists’ show Cologne and Frankfurt. Homes and Gardens, Documenting the Invisible and The Guide: Hasselblad Centre, Sweden, June – August 2001 (co-exhibitor Roger Ballen, curator Val Williams). Homes and Gardens, Documenting the Invisible: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1998: Claustrophobia international group show. Tour 1998 – 2000: Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough. Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield. Cartwright Hall, Bradford. Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff. Homes and Gardens, Documenting the Invisible: Houston Center for Photography, USA, 1988. Other exhibited works/group shows Street Fighting Man, James Hyman Gallery (Flash Projects), London W1, May 2011. Format Photographers at the National Portrait Gallery, London, January – July 2010. National Portrait Gallery, London: John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 2000. 1998 XX Art, London, 1994: Beyond the Front Line: four women photojournalists on war. Watershed Gallery, Bristol, 1993: Format Women Photographers. National Portrait Gallery, London: ICI photography Awards 1992 (nominee). Camerawork Gallery, London 1991: Silent Health exhibition. Toured UK/Ireland 1991- 93. Watershed Gallery, Bristol, 1991: Mothers and Daughters group exhibition, toured UK 1991. B4 Studios, London, 1989, group exhibition. 2 FILM SCREENINGS Standing By, 25 min. sound/still image film, completed 2017, shown at Relatives Film Festival, University of the Arts London (London College of Communication), 8 March 2017. PRINT SALES/COLLECTIONS Science Museum Group (National Media Museum) James Hyman Gallery. National Portrait Gallery, London (2010). Private sales. TEACHING Recent position (2003-19), Reader in Photography in School of Media, Film & Music at University of Sussex, UK. (P/T) Previous appointments London College of Printing: part-time lecturer on Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism, 1994 -2003. Other part time lecturer/tutor positions held 2001-03 at Surrey Institute of Art and Design‚ University of Derby, University of Portsmouth. SELECTED RECENT GUEST LECTURES (about my photography) University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, January 2020. Hastings Photography Festival, Hastings, Sussex, 22 October 2018. University of Napier, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16 October 2018. School of Image Arts, University of Ryerson, Toronto, Canada, 26 September 2018. University of the Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA, 2 November 2017. Artists in Conversation, Towner Art Gallery, 30 September 2017, with photographers John Davies & Simon Roberts, & curators Greg Hobson & Brian Cass. University of Westminster, London, March 2015 & November 2016. City Literary Institute, London, February 2016, University of Manchester (Dept. of Anthropology), February 2016. University of Gloucestershire, December 2015. University of Sussex Arts Society (Art & Politics guest lecture series), June 2014. Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, October 2014. University of South Wales, Newport, November 2013. North East Photography Series, Newcastle, January 2013. Expanded Cinema at University of the Arts London 2011. Shooting the Public, Brighton Photo Fringe, 2010. School of Image Arts, University of Ryerson, Toronto, Canada, 2010. Centre for Transnational Research and Media Practice, Dublin, 2009. Institute for Art, Design and Technology (IADT) Dublin, 2008. University of Berne, Switzerland, 2008. Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, 2007. University of Oxford (Anthropology Department) 2007. University of Harvard, 2002. RECENT CONFERENCES where I gave papers on my photography projects: Presentation on The Plain (previous title: The Lacquer Box, etc.) Creative Methods in Military Studies, University of Newcastle, 2019. Presentation on The Lacquer Box and The Field Gun: A study of the militarised landscape of Salisbury Plain (working title for The Plain) at Spaces of War, War of Spaces conference (Media, War & Conflict Journal 10th anniversary conference), Accademia Europea di Firenze, Italy, 22–23 May 2018. The Lacquer Box and The Field Gun: A study of the militarised landscape of Salisbury Plain (sound/image), work-in- progress presented at Poetics and Politics symposium, University of Sussex, 3 June 2017. Keynote presentation on Border Country at Picturing Migration symposium, National Library of Ireland, Dublin/ Institute of Art & Design Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, March 2017. Representations of Power and Power of the Image in British and American Contemporary Photography, E-CRINI research centre, University of Nantes, France, March 2015. Beyond The View, (New) Perspectives on Seaside Photography, Turner Contemporary, 2014 (Margate, Canterbury). Sensing War, London, June 2014. The Business of War Photography: Producing and Consuming